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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a working telephone" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a telephone that is functional and capable of making calls.
Example: "Please ensure that there is a working telephone in the conference room for the meeting."
Alternatives: "a functional phone" or "an operational telephone".
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But Cashman said he did not have a working telephone number for Jones's agent, B.B. Abbott.
Ekambu is a three-hour drive away from a working telephone.
At this point neither Gray nor Bell had yet constructed a working telephone that could convey speech.
Wever and Bray took an unconscious, but alive, cat and transformed it into a working telephone to test how sound is perceived by the auditory nerve.
Travelers can arrive on foreign soil with a cell phone and a working telephone number when renting cars from Avis or Hertz.
THERE isn't enough room in the Manhattan Yellow Pages to detail my attempts to get a working telephone in my new apartment in Brooklyn.
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Now there are more than half a billion working telephone numbers in North America.
Try getting a gift that might bring them back to the good old days, like an old-fashioned (working) telephone, or a long-lost photo album.
Working telephone lines are scarce.
While they were cutting their hair, washing out the dye and trying on their job-hunting suits, Taka stuck to his music and his part-time jobs, as a waiter or working the telephone.
Survey Sampling, Inc. maintains a database of working residential telephone exchanges in the continental United States.
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